"Stop feeding me bullshit. Tell me the truth."-Lady Gaga, 2009

"I hate the truth. I hate the truth so much I prefer a giant dose of
bullshit any day over the truth."-Lady Gaga, 2010


In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in
New York's Lower East Side burlesque scene, has become the global
demographic-smashing pop icon known as Lady Gaga. She is a once-in-a-
decade artist, a gifted singer, composer, designer, and performance
artist who mixes high and low culture, the avant-garde with the
accessible, authenticity with artifice.

Who is Lady Gaga? She is a twenty-four-year-old woman whose stage
mantra."I'm a free bitch!".is the polar opposite of who she is offstage:
isolated, insecure, and unable to be alone. She is an outre artist who
wanted to be a sensitive singer-songwriter, whose musical heroes include
Britney Spears, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen. She is a woman who
says no man can ever compete with her career, but who still isn't over
the ex-boyfriend who said she was too ambitious. She claims not to care
what people think, but spends her downtime online, reading what people
have to say about her. She claims to be a con artist and utterly authentic.
She is never less than compelling.

Based on over fifty original interviews with friends, employees, rivals,
and music industry veterans, Poker Face is the first in-depth biography
of the extraordinary cultural phenomenon that is Lady Gaga.

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